Category Archives: VBA

Biaxial bending update 2

Posted on 13/12/2024 by dougaj4

It was recently reported that the VBA version of the biaxial bending spreadsheet was returning incorrect results when the neutral axis was exactly parallel to the Y axis. This problem has now been fixed, and the revised spreadsheet can be … Continue reading →

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Continuous beam analysis from first principles

Posted on 22/09/2024 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by an Eng-Tips question: Statically Indeterminant Beam Problem, asking for reactions due to a triangular distributed load on the middle span of a continuous beam with 3 equal simply supported spans. This could be simply solved … Continue reading →

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Regular Expressions in Excel

Posted on 25/05/2024 by dougaj4

I recently discovered that Microsoft are working on Excel functions to work with Regular Expressions. A beta version is currently available to those on the “insider” program, but this functionality has long been available through VBA, and can also be … Continue reading →

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RC Design Functions 9.06; Momcurve functions update

Posted on 30/03/2024 by dougaj4

The RC Design Functions spreadsheet has now been updated to Version 9.06, and is available for free download from: RC Design Functions9.zip The new version fixes a problem with the MomcurveTS function, which was returning an error for any input … Continue reading →

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Download Problems

Posted on 19/03/2024 by dougaj4

Update 24th March 2024: The certificate problem has now been fixed, and most download links should now work without a problem. Note that any file with VBA code (which is almost all of them) will have the VBA blocked with … Continue reading →

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